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Mike G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1050)
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Title
Mike G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1050) [videorecording] / interviewed by Bernard Weinstein, July 28, 1987.
Created
Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1987.
Physical Description
1 videorecording (1 hr., 33 min.) : col.
Language
English
Access and use
This testimony can only be viewed at Yale by Yale faculty and/or students.
This testimony or excerpts from it cannot be used for publication.
Summary
Videotape testimony of Mike G., who was born in Slovenské Nové Mesto, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921, the oldest of five children. He recounts living in Sátoraljaújhely; his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; living with his grandparents for two years; his father's death when he was nine; living with relatives in Kisvárda; returning home; attending high school and yeshiva; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; posting in Kőszeg; transfer to the Soviet front; laying mines and construction work; frequents deaths from starvation and disease; escaping with two others in 1944; briefly joining a partisan group; traveling to Várhomok; a local woman hiding them; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Uz︠h︡horod, then Mukacheve; returning home; marriage in Budapest in 1946; traveling to the Heidenheim displaced persons camp via Vienna; attending an UNRRA school; moving to Sweden to join his sister; his son's birth; and emigration to the United States.
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Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Mike G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1050). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Mike G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1050). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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